Microsoft Software Solution Product Guide Product Guide Microsoft and Lenovo have been partners for over 25 years. Together we ensure that the latest Microsoft technologies work perfectly with Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions to provide the most reliable, secure and high-performing datacenters for our customers. Built with proven Lenovo innovation, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and ThinkAgile solutions extend Microsoft's operating systems, virtualization technologies, and infrastructure platforms so you can build a highly productive IT environment that can help your business achieve true innovation. Lenovo has proven experience in developing and delivering Microsoft-based solutions that help customers modernize and simplify their IT infrastructure to dramatically drive down operating costs and open the door to cutting-edge innovations. Built around the latest Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and networking hardware, the Lenovo solution with Microsoft provides businesses with an affordable, interoperable, and reliable industry-leading solution to manage their virtualized workloads. Did you know? Lenovo XClarity Integrator integrates Lenovo XClarity Administrator into Microsoft software, providing the functionality you need to manage Lenovo infrastructure right in the console of Microsoft software. Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that reduces complexity, speeds up response, and enhances the availability of Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions. Lenovo offers XClarity Integrator for Windows Admin Center, Microsoft Azure Log Analytics and Microsoft System Center. For more information, refer to the Lenovo XClarity Administrator Product Guide, https://lenovopress.com/tips1200-lenovo-xclarity-administrator. Microsoft Software Solution Product Guide 1 Why buy Microsoft licenses from Lenovo? Lenovo offers various types and forms of Microsoft licensing so organizations and partners can leverage best in class Lenovo servers to build agile IT infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and high performing. Choosing a Microsoft OEM license from Lenovo for most customers is the simplest and most cost effective license. Microsoft licenses from Lenovo are specifically pre-tested and optimized to install on Lenovo servers. Lenovo offers support for all of its Microsoft offerings, giving customers a single point of support for their entire datacenter. Lenovo holds more world record benchmarks than anyone with SQL Server from Microsoft. Lenovo is the first company to publish a non-clustered TPC-H@10,000GB benchmark performance result running Microsoft SQL Server. Refer to https://lenovopress.com/lp0720-sr950-tpch-benchmark-result-2017-07-11. When you purchase Microsoft SQL Server from Lenovo, you have support and access to the industry- leading Lenovo Engineering team that made this benchmark performance possible. With co-located engineering organizations and a history of technical collaboration, Microsoft and Lenovo consistently deliver innovative joint solutions for the data center. Lenovo's leadership in reliability, customer satisfaction, and performance, combined with Microsoft’s reputation in software and cloud services, continues to deliver innovative data-center solutions and lower total cost of ownership for our joint customers. With Lenovo, customers have access to decades of datacenter expertise, industry leading support services and the option to leverage Lenovo consultative, professional, and managed service offerings. Lenovo provides customers with the best solution to generate the business results they are looking to achieve, while leveraging a single partner for all aspects of support and services. Microsoft Subscription Licenses Microsoft offers a variety of Windows Server and SQL server subscription licenses in in both 1-year and 3- years terms. Microsoft subscription licenses provide customers with latest software versions, complete mobility, and continuous support among other benefits. Below is a comparison between perpetual and subscription licenses from Microsoft: Table 1. Microsoft Subscription Licenses Perpetual Licenses Subscription Licenses Mobility No Yes Version Specific Latest (always) Updates Needed N/A Upgrades Available N/A Support Till EOL Continuous Renewal N/A Required (end-of-Term) Windows Server Subscriptions Microsoft Software Solution Product Guide 2 Windows Server Subscriptions Microsoft offers the following Windows Server subscriptions, both in 1-year and 3-year terms: Windows Server CAL (Device) Windows Server CAL (User) Windows Server RMS CAL (Device) Windows Server RMS CAL (User) Windows Server Standard (8 Cores) Windows Server Remote Desktop (User) For more information regarding features and applications for WS version, please visit the Microsoft Windows Server page at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server. To order Windows Server subscriptions, please refer to the Microsoft Subscription Licenses section. SQL Server Subscriptions Microsoft offers the following SQL Server subscriptions, both in 1-year and 3-year terms: Microsoft SQL Server Standard (2 Cores) Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise (2 Cores) For more information regarding SQL Server 2019, please visit the Microsoft SQL Server page at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/product-licensing/sql-server?activetab=sql-server- pivot:primaryr2&rtc=1. To order SQL Server subscriptions, please refer to table “Microsoft Subscription Licenses – Part Numbers” below. Table 2. Microsoft Subscription Licenses – Part Numbers Description Part number Windows Server Windows Server CAL - 1 Device CAL - 1 year Subscription 7S0T0005WW Windows Server CAL - 1 Device CAL - 3 year Subscription 7S0T0006WW Windows Server CAL - 1 User CAL - 1 year Subscription 7S0T0007WW Windows Server CAL - 1 User CAL - 3 year Subscription 7S0T0008WW Windows Server RMS CAL - 1 Device CAL - 1 year Subscription 7S0T0009WW Windows Server RMS CAL - 1 Device CAL - 3 year Subscription 7S0T000AWW Windows Server RMS CAL - 1 User CAL - 1 year Subscription 7S0T000BWW Windows Server RMS CAL - 1 User CAL - 3 year Subscription 7S0T000CWW Windows Server Remote Desktop Services CAL-1 User CAL -1 Year Subscription 7S0T000FWW Windows Server Remote Desktop Services CAL-1 User CAL -3 Year Subscription 7S0T000GWW Windows Server Standard - 8 Core License Pack - 1 year Subscription 7S0T000DWW Windows Server Standard - 8 Core License Pack - 3 year Subscription 7S0T000EWW Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise - 2 Core License Pack - 1 year Subscription 7S0T0001WW Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise - 2 Core License Pack - 3 year Subscription 7S0T0002WW Microsoft SQL Server Standard - 2 Core License Pack - 1 year Subscription 7S0T0003WW Microsoft SQL Server Standard - 2 Core License Pack - 3 year Subscription 7S0T0004WW Microsoft Software Solution Product Guide 3 Microsoft Azure Plans The Microsoft Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice. Only a single Azure Plan is required in order to order unlimited number of Azure Cloud Services. Amongst popular and high demand Azure Services are: Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HUB Azure Backup Azure Storage Azure File Sync Azure Site Recovery Azure Monitor Azure Update Management Azure Virtual Machines Azure SQL Server Please visit the following Azure page for a complete list of available Azure Cloud Services: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/ All Azure Cloud Services are available by Lenovo through a single part number (PN). This PN registers customers to a Lenovo Azure Tenant portal. Through this portal, customers can activate and manage all Azure Cloud Services for their accounts. The following customer information is required at PoS (point of sale) for Lenovo to provide end-user access to Lenovo Azure Tenant portal: Valid contact name Valid contact email address Valid domain To order an Azure Plan from Lenovo (support plan available), please refer to table “Azure Plan – Part Numbers” below: Table 3. Azure Plan – Part Numbers Description Part number Azure Cloud Services Azure Plan 7S0T000HWW Lenovo Support for Azure Cloud – 1 year subscription** 7S0T000LWW Microsoft is solely responsible for measuring and providing accurate Azure Cloud Services consumed by a customer’s Azure Plan. Lenovo will provide a monthly bill to customers or reseller partners based upon Microsoft’s Azure Plan consumption reports. For more information regarding Azure, please visit: Microsoft Azure Azure Documentation Azure Pricing Estimator Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances Microsoft Software Solution Product Guide 4 Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances Microsoft Azure platform also provides a pre-paid discounted variation of a selected number of Azure Cloud Services. These services can be pre-paid for both 1-year and 3-years terms. End-users have the entire term to consume reserved instances of Azure Cloud Services. Information regarding available Azure Cloud Service Reserved Instances and discounts can be found at Microsoft’s Azure Pricing Estimator page . All Azure Cloud Services are available by Lenovo through a single part number (PN). This PN registers customers to a Lenovo Azure Tenant portal. Through this portal, customers can activate and manage all Azure Cloud Services for their accounts. The following customer information